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Whether the internet has made our lives better or worse depends on the perspective (half full or half empty), and is an excellent water cooler conversation. :-)

\~\? works on macOS, as well as CentOS.

A very straightforward technical solution is to convert all html emails to plain text (ASCII). Mutt users rarely get phished. :-)

I thought so too, but no, it wasn't.

The normal workflow is so ingrained in our company culture, that I received an email from our IT team about not clicking on embedded links, and that email had a embedded link to "learn more". ;-)

I always suspected technical tools were more effective (time, effort, money) than the training programs. However, only company-wide training programs provide visibility to the CISO, so they tend to be popular even if ineffective.

Because you cannot fix humans, technology is the most effective approach.

That was my first gut instinct too. Good to know I am not alone. :)

I agree -- Ascension is also complicit in this, and merely paying lip-service to HIPAA. The Senator's letter, on the other hand, paints a one-sided picture of the matter.

Aren't advancements in AI actually helping drug discovery?

We scream at the expired certificate, yet happily let CloudFlare be an official MitM. How ironic is that? :)

Where the argument is rooted is helpful in determining if there is any sort of compromise or "seeing other's viewpoint" can be had. - Beliefs: Lowest level, simply held to be true. Arguments at this level cannot change anyone's mind and are pointless waste of time - Values: Higher up, what you value more. Still deep, but some middle ground possible with lot of effort - Morals: Right or wrong, middle ground and compromise or change of mind possible - Ethics: Top level, just morals into action. Easiest to argue/change mind.

The article rendering hurt my eyes, and then it was a pdf of the source code! :-(

I genuinely liked your opening statement (disagreeing...)

I am sorry to hear you had such a raw experience. Maybe you were dealing with pretty clueless engineers, since most do realize a buffer overflow should be treated exploitable unless proven otherwise. I've had better experience trying to argue the cost of fix -- it being pretty low was incentive enough for engineering to fix it.

That said, I am worried evilsocket may not be taken seriously next time he finds a vulnerability with CVSS 9.9. To some extent I am surprised by his argument on not knowing CVSS scoring rubrik. There may have been language barrier at play as well, leading to some of his sentences coming across as more abrasive than they should have been.

We must first precisely define "level of security" that is expected from OpenSSH and a commerical version. Only then the discussion about who can guarantee what would make sense.

You can pay for it and sign a file full of null characters. Signing has nothing to do with quality from what I understand.

True, especially when a reboot of Windows takes several minutes because it started auto-applying updates!

I believe instances like this will push people to reconsider the lax stance. Humans in general have a hard time regulating something abstract. The fact that people can be killed is well-known since the 80s', see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

My guess is this was an auto-update pushed out by whatever central management server they use. Given CS is supposed to protect your from malware, IT may have staged and pushed the update in one go.

I bet no one in major European cities requires to bike like ten miles each way. The point is the size of American cities is vastly different to European ones, so what works that side of Atlantic rarely translates "as-is" here.

(I am disappointed about this oft thrown around comparison, since my city reduced one lane on several major roads and created bike paths. Sadly, we now have major traffic jams and hardly any utilization of the bike path. Turns out someone on the city council wanted to turn it into Denmark)

Convert the Smart to DumbTV by offloading all apps to your favorite streaming device (for example, Apple TV or Nvidia Shield). If it helps, don't ever enable internet connectivity to the Smart TV.

I'd like to as in what ways is Europe great? From my narrow point of view, most if not all successful startups were founded outside Europe, most countries in Western Europe tend to be monolithic cultures where outsiders are made to feel like outsiders, and many European nations are socialist utopias (which means they take away a HUGE chunk of salary as tax).

(And I am asking this in a friendly tone, as a genuinely curious question, and not a combative one. These nuances get lost, so putting them down in words). Thanks.

Actually, posts on HN routinely lead me to several fantastic blogs! So yes, there are people writing interesting stuff in a blog as opposed to byte-sized nibbles on social media, and I enjoy them.

Thanks for these recommendations. :)

Not just birds, but with everything else in life, I tend to first check if regulations exist before advocating for (more) regulation.

Yeah, that is my understanding as well. While many promote Firefox as an alternative to Google Chrome, it simply lacks adequate proof that Firefox is any better than Chrome at tracking. Else, how does Mozilla survive?

AdGuard on Safari seems a reasonable replacement for uBlock Origin. I also recently learned about https://arc.net/ and https://browser.kagi.com/ as better alternatives, though I haven't tried them out and do not know how they compare in terms of tracking.

It works well as a general purpose desktop OS as well as rock solid server. It is arguably simple and less complex, and has a cleaner, compact and immensely readable source code as compared to Linux.

That "eat less"needs to be elaborated. Eating less beef is not the same as eating less tomatoes. :-)

If a field takes two decades to "correct" its mistakes, then there are several things wrong with it. And if we have top positions held by unethical people, who have got away with it, and possibly climbed to the top because of it, then I do not know what to feel or say about this.

The same can be said of Windows users.

I am curious now - at what depths is it considered human origin? Is it because we know how much the sea level has risen in the last x years?